Procurement Manager
- Brentford, England (GBR)
- £450 - £515 Per Day
- 3 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: GSK0JP00078712
- procurement
- supply chain
- business requirements
- budgets
- stakeholder management
- risk management
- performance management
- cost control
- mba
- sourcing strategies
Local Operating Companies (LOC) are critical to GSK – they help us develop and distribute our products to our patents across the globe. In this role we will need you to represent GSK and act as the interface between the LOCs and global procurement to ensure continuity of business.
This role represents a great opportunity for you to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse stakeholders. You will then use these relationships to understand everyone’s objectives and then advise how procurement can help achieve these goals. This may include ambitious cost savings, managing risk and/or ensuring that the right suppliers are being chosen.
It is a fantastic chance for someone to make an immediate impact and to drive improvements across this business area. Due to the scope and influence of the role, it will also present various development opportunities for as your career with GSK continues.
Your Responsibilities
Strategy execution
• Align with appropriate Hub and Global category teams and work in collaboration with these teams to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation and execution
• Execute global sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable LOC or regional dimensions are accommodated
• Have a clear understanding of how global strategies affect local markets and build an education & communication process for regional Procurement leads and business units
• Be the local expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility
Benefit delivery
• Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Spend Management Framework approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process
• Create and deliver effective budgets (Plans of Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Spend Management Framework
Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK
• Build strategic relationships with local GSK stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
External supplier relationships
• Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity globally. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken
• Manage the local supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Ensure suitable processes and communication links exist between above country supplier organization structures and local & regional networks to ensure effective process and communication cascade through supplier and GSK network and geographies
Supply chain & risk management
• Transform the supply chain to release value and make GSK more responsive to business and customer needs – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs
• Identify and manage significant risks in the supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base
Basic Qualifications
• Procurement experience including the ability to support multiple categories
• Track record of senior stakeholder management and influencing, this includes the ability to build strong relationships and to influence without express authority
• Experience managing suppliers (including performance management), developing new potential suppliers and partnering with supply base for mutual benefit
• Able to demonstrate significant cost savings
• Ability to articulate the value that procurement can bring to an organisation
Preferred Qualifications
• Qualified to Degree level, ideally within Procurement and Supply Chain, and/or further academic qualifications, for example MBA, CIPS, MCIPS
• Category experience within Marketing, Sales and/or Commercial although high potential candidates from other areas will also be considered
• Ability to articulate the business case for Supplier Diversity and translate it into action in discrete situations
• Understanding of Procure-to-Pay and Spend Analysis systems; ability to dive into data and co-create, understand, and trouble-shoot reporting requirements
About GSK
At GSK, our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. Our three world-leading businesses research and deliver innovative medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. We need a talented and motivated workforce to deliver against our strategy. To achieve this, we strive to attract the best people and to create an environment that empowers and inspires.
Who are Global Procurement at GSK?
We are a centralised and integrated organisation, delivering value to GSK through partnership with stakeholders and our supply base. Our team is comprised of 700+ colleagues in over 65 countries. Collectively we manage over £11B in spend across a substantial breadth of spend categories. We do this through an approach centered around Global Category Management and through embedded presence and engagement with our stakeholders in local country teams and manufacturing sites.
What role does Procurement play in delivering the GSK strategy?
Procurement at GSK continues to develop into an important strategic business partner with a high expectation to help create value for GSK not only through delivering savings to the business but from working with great suppliers who help deliver high quality goods and services to GSK impacting both our bottom line and top line growth.
What’s the future for Global Procurement?
We will be an integrated organization with value added business partnering relationships, deep category expertise in the right places, and effective supplier relationship management practices. We are focused on streamlining business processes, efficiently managing a strong pipeline of value-adding projects, and delivering maximum value for GSK.
